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AND LOWER EGYPT. 305
the platform that separates the two sections are
oxen turning a wheel, by which very brackish
water is raised from the bottom. This double
well is said to be two hundred and eighty feet
deep, and forty-two in circumference.
The beys kept in pay an auxiliary body of in-
fantry, composed of Moors, bad soldiers, on whose
fidelity not the smallest trust could be reposed.
Less brave than the Carthaginians, they still re-
tain the qualities of their ancestors ; as they are
lying, revengeful, cruel, and perfidious to excess.
These maugrebis (men of the west), encumbered
with their bournouss, a sort of white cloak, of one
single piece without scams, with a long pointed
hood, sold themselves to any one that would buy
them, quitted the service of one bey who paid
them well, for that of another who would pay
them better, and formed at Cairo an additional
instrument for ambition, revenge, and treason.
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the platform that separates the two sections are
oxen turning a wheel, by which very brackish
water is raised from the bottom. This double
well is said to be two hundred and eighty feet
deep, and forty-two in circumference.
The beys kept in pay an auxiliary body of in-
fantry, composed of Moors, bad soldiers, on whose
fidelity not the smallest trust could be reposed.
Less brave than the Carthaginians, they still re-
tain the qualities of their ancestors ; as they are
lying, revengeful, cruel, and perfidious to excess.
These maugrebis (men of the west), encumbered
with their bournouss, a sort of white cloak, of one
single piece without scams, with a long pointed
hood, sold themselves to any one that would buy
them, quitted the service of one bey who paid
them well, for that of another who would pay
them better, and formed at Cairo an additional
instrument for ambition, revenge, and treason.
vol.. ir.
x